A lie in but we were still awake early so at 5.30ish John went to get two cups of tea from the dining area which we drank before he did his ablutions while I sat in bed sorting out the photographs. Off for a second cup of tea at 7.30 and breakfast on our own as our walk was planned to start at 0845. The 2 other guests were at the canopy walkway - their return being signalled by the tree buttress, previously used to communicate in the forest, being loudly banged a...

Up at 5.15 for 5.45 tea and a 6am start to the canopy walkway to see the day begin at the top of the rainforest. A 700m walk from the lodge and an uphill last section was all it took to reach the first hut. Then one at a time we walked to each platform spending most time on platform 3 ......we saw plumbeous pigeons, the very handsome Guianan toucanet, a pair of red and green macaws flying over, the screaming piha- a large thrush sized bird with a big sound that e...

Up at 5ish and we turned on BBC news but even with the intermittent satellite signal we were still unsure of the time and so phoned the operator and she confirmed it was Trinidad time (4hours behind UK) where did the extra half an hour come from? Must be Caribbean airlines time! Two mugs of tea,with water heated in the coffee maker, later and feeling human we got up and went to breakfast. After our 0815 briefing we were collected and taken to Ogle airstrip for ou...

We left home at 0300 hours to get to Gatwick in time drop off the car and check in for our 0900 flight toTobago. Enroute I used the wonderful Virgin Atlantic app which showed me our flight was delayed until 1020am! b*****!! This was confirmed as we checked in our two 9kg bags, necessary for the internal flight in Guyana and the more sizeable 15kg bag for the rest of the trip to Trinidad,Tobago and Barbados. So after security we trotted off to the Virgin lounge f...